These nerves must pass between the protective barrier of the spinal column to connect the spinal cord to the rest of the body. The location of the nerves in the spinal cord determine their function. The spongy spinal cord is protected by the irregular shaped bones of the spinal column called vertebrae.
Stanza means stopping place. The term stanza means âstopping placeâ in Italian. A stanza is a set of lines in a poem, set apart from other sets of lines by space. Each stanza comprises its own unit. The break/space between stanzas generally indicates a pause between thoughts, concepts or actions. In standard practice, most poems end a sentence at the end of stanza.
Stanza forms. Stanzas can be of any number of lines. Some types of stanza have special names. For example: a couplet has two lines that rhyme with each other. a quatrain has four lines, rhyming in any pattern. The lines in rhyming stanzas can be of any length. However, it is quite common for them to be isometric, that is, for each of them to contain the same number of syllables. The stanza above by James Elroy Flecker is in regular eight-syllable lines: octosyllabics.